A westbound Burlington Northern local freight—comprised of two EMD GP20s, six wood chip gons and a caboose—zips past the wood frame station at Cromwell, Minnesota, on October 19, 1985.

A climb up a tall bluff at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, yields this view of the Mississippi River valley and Burlington Northern’s long causeway just east of Winona, Minnesota. On the morning of June... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rumbles over Bridge 208 spanning an icy Clark Fork at Donlan, Montana, on a cold February 9, 1997. Powering the train is BN EMD SD40-2 No. 8102 an... (more)

Burlington Northern train 43 growls out of the siding at Chana, Illinois, after meeting train 2 on the sunny spring day of April 6, 1991. On the point is EMD GP20C No. 2003, along with sister Cat ... (more)

The first section of BN train 120 has almost finished rounding the large horseshoe curve that crosses Greenhorn Creek between Skyline and Weed, Montana, and passes some mountain lupines on the mor... (more)

A trio of BN C30-7s lead coal loads through Lin Scott, NE on a November afternoon. Already becoming old school, the C30-7s had dominated the coal routes for years but were inexorably giving way to... (more)

Just moments after departing the crew change town of Mandan, North Dakota, on the afternoon of August 10, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern coal train crosses a truss bridge over the Heart Riv... (more)

It’s in the very early days of Burlington Northern Santa Fe as train 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. The railroad still looks like the Burlington Northe... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty makes its way down Crawford Hill, encircling the large horseshoe curve below Belmont, Nebraska, on the morning of July 24, 1992. Powering the train desti... (more)

It’s another busy morning on Burlington Northern’s route over Crawford Hill in Nebraska. As a quartet of BN EMD SD40-2s splicing a fuel tender, being used as a manned helper set out of Crawfor... (more)

A lot of BN SD40s gravitated to the Transcon after the merger; case in point - this eastbound struggling up the long grade from the Colorado River to the Arizona Divide as it moves through Kingman... (more)

A trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs on a westbound coal train smoke it up as they negotiate an undulating main line through West Berea, Nebraska, on July 4, 1996. This train is heading west... (more)

BNSF train 196 traces the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon as it approaches Lombard, Montana, on August 9, 1996. Three EMD locomotives power the eastbound train—a pair of SD40-2s and a GP50... (more)

A short Burlington Northern local out of Rochelle, Illinois, scurries westward on the C&I (Chicago & Iowa, a predecessor) line west of Flag Center on April 6, 1991. Between EMD GP38 No. 2172 and c... (more)